Live-Action System Shock Series In The Works, Will Air Exclusively On Binge

Binge, the video game-focused amusement streaming level that will motorboat successful 2022, is moving connected a live-action adaptation of System Shock.

This adaptation volition steam exclusively connected Binge arsenic a bid and is being produced with assistance from Nightdive Studios. According to Deadline, Nightdive has owned the rights to System Shock since purchasing it from the now-defunct Looking Glass Studios successful 2012. 

More specifically, Nightdive Studios laminitis Stephen Kick and manager of concern improvement Larry Kuperman volition beryllium enforcement producers for the series. Allan Ungar, who directed the fan-made Uncharted abbreviated movie featuring Nathan Fillion arsenic Nathan Drake, is Binge’s main contented serviceman and volition nutrient the series. 

“I’ve ever believed that a live-action adaptation of System Shock would beryllium the cleanable mean to retell the harrowing communicative of Citadel Station and its rogue AI that subjects the unit to unimaginable horror,” Kick said. “We’re precise excited to spot the talented squad astatine Binge bring System Shock to beingness successful horrifyingly existent and caller ways.” 

Ungar told Deadline that Binge believes System Shock helped redefine what it means to play an FPS and that this bid volition bash close by it and that genre. 

As noted by Deadline, System Shock joins a lineup of different video crippled live-action bid adaptations successful the works astatine Binge. The level is besides moving connected a live-action bid based connected Ubisoft’s Driver. 

System Shock is simply a 1994 crippled developed by Looking Glass Studios that helped pave the mode for franchises similar BioShock, Dishonored, and more. It’s astir a rogue AI named SHODAN that fundamentally takes implicit a abstraction presumption and reprograms/mutates everything aboard the presumption to termination you. 

Nightdive Studios is moving connected a remake of System Shock that’s available for pre-order now. It besides received a final demo earlier this year. Check retired this video showcasing 20 minutes of System Shock remake gameplay to larn what to expect.

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